Initial 1/2 day project assessement - Database Job costing system for small Manufacturing Services Business

Description

Experience Level: Intermediate

The initial assignment is for a 1/2 day of the contractors time to meet with the client at the client's factory site in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK for the purposes of identifying clients needs to allow the contractor to provide his /her detail proposals and cost estimates in implementing a later full project described generally below (If the contractor is then successful with a his or her bid submitted). As part of the initial assessment proposals if the contractor is not able to complete the full project him / or her self he should advise the parts of the later project that would need to additionally outsourced by the client if the follow on project were to be later awarded to the contractor invited to bid for this initial 1/2 assessment and quotation project.

To quote on

Designing & implementing a small jobbing engineering services business develop / advise on the development
a database system that incorporates the following functions;
* Quote preparation and recording using base costs linked to annual budgets
* Provide reports on what ifs scenarios when base costs changes on profitability for quotes
* Convert quote to order and record order details
* Tracking of the order maintaining ISO9001 systems
* Printing of job cards
* Recording of production information
* Reporting of Key Performance Indicators such as
* Quote to order success
* Order intake
* Delivery on time
* Adherence to cost estimates (Post job costing feed back in to the system)

The project will be to fully define the requirements and specification of the database system to
ensure that the needs of the company are met and best management practices are implemented to
improve the control on the business.

Please note the client is a long established Limited company, and the client is not obliged to award any additional work quoted for under this initial assignment as this opportunity is being advertised else where at the same time on a competitive basis.